Machine Helper

For over 40 years, Manchester Industries, a Clearwater Paper Company, has demonstrated a passion for providing packaging and paperboard solutions to our customers. Manchester’s five strategic locations ensure speed to market and a high-quality product. With a total of fourteen precision sheeters, three slitter rewinders, five guillotines, and four carton packing lines, we have the capacity to produce over 170,000 tons of finished product for the marketplace.

We maintain an average daily inventory of over 16,000 tons to meet the demands of our customers providing “Just in Time” service for customer needs.

Nestled in the Nettle Creek valley, the town of Hagerstown, Indiana offers beautiful Midwest small-town living within reach of metropolitan advantages. Hagerstown is just a short drive to Indianapolis, located just 60 miles northeast of town. The town provides services to the community including excellent fire and emergency support along with an award-winning library, a beautiful park system, and a forward-thinking school system.

Downtown Hagerstown is best known for Perfect Circle, Tedco, Welliver’s Restaurant, the Nettle Creek Players, and Abbot’s Candy Company. Hagerstown’s Hometown Christmas has become an annual event that includes a Sunday evening tour of Jefferson Township churches. Hagerstown offers a variety of volunteer opportunities including the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Meals-on-Wheels, and a variety of churches and rotary clubs.

Hagerstown is proud of its local schools including Nettle Creek K-12 schools, Indiana High School, and Hagerstown High School. The community also offers highly ranked technical schools and universities including Ivy Tech Community College, Northeastern, and Purdue.

The Machine Helper is responsible for performing duties as a roll tender or wrapper/bander, assisting Machine Operators in the production of sheeted skids of paperboard. The employee in this position must be able to work with minimal supervision and communicate effectively with both production and office personnel.

• Responsible for helping in the Wrapper/Bander area for the final phase in the manufacturing process of the product
• Confirms skids to order and prepares skids for deliver and/or storage in compliance with quality and customer specifications, stages skids for use
• Stages completed orders in the warehouse according to job number and customer, in a manner to assure easy retrieval for shipment and proper spacing according to established procedures
• Properly wraps and bands skids with the proper operation and use of approved tools such as pliers and pallet jacks, responsible for plier set-up
• Assists other wrapper/banders as necessary, assist in training of new Machine Helpers
• Perform minor maintenance activities and works closely with Maintenance Technician as needed
• Conduct routine inspections of equipment based on preventative maintenance routes/check sheets/frequencies
• Attend and apply training provided by the Company, both job and department specific
• Recognize errors and problems with delivered materials, actively troubleshoot top problems and escape unresolved issues with a focus to ensure inventory accuracy and receipt of goods
• Confirming rolls to order and prepare rolls for use, including the preparation of leftover rolls to return to inventory and storage
• Load rolls into roll stand, splice rolls as needed
• Responsible for the core splitter operation
• Assists other Roll Tenders as necessary, assist in training of new Machine Helpers
• Perform minor maintenance activities and works closely with Maintenance Technician as needed
• Conduct routine inspections of equipment based on preventative maintenance routes/check sheets/frequencies
• Attend and apply training…